While there certainly was a lot of buzz about the Palm Pre, there wasn’t too much out there about it’s potential business implimentation. From my use in an extended test, I found that it really could hang with it’s only true competitor in the media device with smartphone functionality category,
the iphone. Now while selection in this category is quite limited, it has a significant share of the market’s profits with only 3% of the market. Still the experience is lacking when compared to workstation or Good Messaging, or even BES. Message delivery is tempermental (but that could possibly be attributed to Sprint), Flag For Follup Up is missing (but BES doesn’t even have that yet either), GAL lookups are slow… in short, not quite there. Admins should be delighted to know that Good Messaging Version 6 SR 1 or higher will support the Pre and the iPhone. Somewhere towards the end of this year… Users should rejoice because now when they break it, Admins can actually fix it. Let’s have a party!
